OTA Sessions - March 23rd, 2012 - Sioux Falls, SD » Speakers

Bella Ruse

admin — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:55:43 +0000

Bella Ruse’s mix of airy folk and crunchy pop transforms rooms into secret gardens and paints pictures of invading bombardiers, salty sea love, and super glued hearts. Surrounded by a laboratory of instruments – typewriter, suitcase organ, glockenspiel, and kazoos – singer Kay Gillette’s antique voice and Joseph Barker’s mournful guitar twist and twirl and dip and dive and carry you deep down the rabbit-hole into their magical musical world. Their songs have been heard on MTV and Showtime and their most recent album, KUHZOO, spent 8 weeks on the CMJ Radio Top 200.

Scott Friesen

admin — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:46:38 +0000

Scott serves as a Senior Director and leads the analytic team for the Consumer Insights Unit at Best Buy, the mission of which is to bring actionable and relevant consumer and customer insights to the business to enable profitable growth for the enterprise. He has also held positions in BestBuy.com, Enterprise Strategy, and Geek Squad services. Outside of his immediate business responsibilities, he works on broadening the understanding of analytics methods both inside and outside Best Buy.

Peter Sims

admin — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:18:31 +0000

Peter Sims is a best-selling author and entrepreneur. His latest book, Little Bets, grew out of a long collaboration with faculty at Stanford’s d.school—a hub of creative thinking and doing—and his previous work in venture capital with Summit Partners, where he had the opportunity to work with some of the world’s most innovative entrepreneurs. Peter is also Co-Founder and Director of Fuse Corps, an innovative social venture that will enable America’s most entrepreneurial leaders to work on year-long grassroots projects to tackle some of society’s most pressing problems.

Tim Ogilvie

admin — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:16:51 +0000

Tim Ogilvie is CEO & Chief Inspiration Officer of Peer Insight. He is an expert in service innovation, business model development, and design thinking. Tim has led Peer Insight consulting assignments for sixteen Fortune 200 firms and six global governments, and has made pioneering contributions to the emerging discipline of service innovation and business model design. He is the co-author of Designing for Growth: A Design Thinking Tool Kit for Managers.

Meagan Bennett

admin — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:14:57 +0000

Meagan Bennett is the Associate Art Director for Abrams Books Young Readers’ new 0-5 program, Appleseed. A graduate of the Savannah College of Art and Design, Meagan previously worked at Blueprint Magazine and at Chronicle Books in their Fellowship Design Lab, a think-tank responsible for brainstorming the future of Chronicle’s products.

Eric La Brecque

admin — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:13:28 +0000

Eric La Brecque is President of Applied Storytelling. Over the past 17 years, Eric has pursued an approach to brand communications that combines storytelling techniques from the world’s great narrative traditions with an ongoing study of marketplace dynamics. Viewing brand development as equal parts business discipline and art form, he and his team have successfully addressed complex communications challenges for everything from cities and retail destinations to beauty products and communications technologies.

Eric Pakurar

admin — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:12:15 +0000

Eric Pakurar is Executive Director and Head of Strategy for G2, a top-five global marketing services agency. Eric oversees planning and strategy teams across all G2 USA practices in North America, including Interactive Marketing, Promotional Marketing, Relationship Marketing and Branding & Design practices. G2’s clients include Adobe, Campbell Soup Company, EA, Heineken, and Procter & Gamble. Prior to G2, Eric served as a Head of Strategy with Naked Communications and DDB New York, working with clients including NBC, Powerade, Coke, Samsung and Subaru.

Jay O’Callahan

admin — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:10:46 +0000

Jay O’Callahan is the Mark Twain of our day. He takes a bare stage and single-handedly transforms it into a dynamic and sensitive world filled with compelling characters. Jay’s solo performances at Abbey Theatre in Dublin, National Theatre Complex in London, the Olympics, Lincoln Center, Boston Symphony Orchestra and other theaters throughout the world have been applauded by the media, including The Boston Globe, The Washington Post and Entertainment Weekly. The Associated Press trumpeted him as “a theater troupe inside one body.” TIME dubbed Jay “a genius.”

Simon Mainwaring

admin — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:08:29 +0000

Simon Mainwaring is an award-winning branding consultant, bestselling author, influential blogger and international speaker. He is the author of We First and founder of We First, a social branding consultancy committed to helping brands build communities, profit and positive impact. Prior to starting We First, Simon was a Nike creative writer at Wieden & Kennedy and worldwide creative director for Motorola at Ogilvy as well as a consultant on dozens of Fortune 500 brands and leading advertising, production, digital and social media firms.

Paul Adams

admin — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:06:56 +0000

Paul Adams works as a Global Brand Experience and Product Manager at Facebook. He is broadly recognized as one of the leading thinkers on designing social interactions and the emerging social web, and his work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, AdWeek and many more leading publications. Paul spent the past four years leading user research for Google’s social projects including Google+, Gmail, Mobile and YouTube. Paul recently released his first book, Grouped.